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Man from Spain made losses trying to day trade in the US. Because he didn't record his transactions, the IRS thought he made a pure profit. So he was hit with a $172 million bill when he can hardly even pay rent!

Thousands of children in the southern state will receive publicly-funded vouchers for the next school year to attend private schools where Scotland's most famous mythological beast will be taught as a real living creature. These private schools follow a fundamentalist curriculum including the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) programme to teach controversial religious beliefs aimed at disproving evolution and proving creationism. One tenet has it that if it can be proved that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man then Darwinism is fatally flawed.

Should we allow our society to be dumbed down cause a few morons have it in their head that evolution is not the truth or science is not the way?

Bank of England holds fire, for now

Economists see additional quantitative easing in 2012

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — The Bank of England, as expected, left its key lending rate at a record low on Thursday and made no changes to its quantitative easing program as policy makers wrestle with an economy that threatens to tip back into recession.

Cop holds gun to 9 year old's head during raid and says to father "little kids can kill cops too,"

Tennessee's lawmakers have been on a roll with vital pieces of legislation, necessary to the well-being of their residents. There's the bill to protect teachers who tell students that scientific ideas like evolution and climate change aren't necessarily true. There's the bill to ensure public buildings can display the Ten Commandments (and other "historically significant documents") if they choose. But now, they've really hit the meat of important issues with a bill to outlaw saggy pants.

A new bill that’s the first of its kind would prohibit all “sexual orientation change efforts” for minors, is through the legislature and slated to land on the governor's desk in September.

A bill has been introduced by the Illinois House of Representatives that will affect the way Hog Rock (aka Hatchet Landings) does business and holds events (including The Gathering of the Juggalos). If passed, a tax will be put on every ticket sold. This could jeopardize future events here.

The Connecticut state Senate passed legislation last week that would hold police officers in the state personally liable for violating a citizen's First Amendment right to videotape their actions. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Eric Coleman (D-Bloomfield).
"Sometimes we become aware of incidents where police officers have been overzealous or abusive and not act in a very complimentary way towards the citizens who deserve to be served and protected," Coleman said.